Somewhere around 1:00 AM this morning, when my latest piece on the Hall of Fame ballot was past late and waaaaay too long, I decided to cut and run with just the starting pitchers, leaving the relievers — whose methodology I’m still tweaking — for another day (word to the wise: no spreadsheets after midnight). …
In my Thanksgiving post a few weeks back, I made mention of an exciting development that would be keeping me busy up until the holidays. With the contract signed (not to mention a good chunk of the work done), now it can be told: I’m writing player comments for Fantasy Baseball Index, a well-circulated annual …
Part II of FI research assistant Peter Quadrino‘s take on the Mets’ offseason moves… Mets get: P Billy WagnerBilly Wagner gets: $43 million over 4 yearsWagner’s agent, Bean Stringfellow, gets: recognition for having one of the funniest names in sports. Just a few hours after introducing Delgado to the NY media, the Mets reached an …
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Peter Quadrino is a college student from New York City who’s been serving with distinction as my research assistant for the past six months on projects both for this site and Baseball Prospectus. He’s a Mets fan, and as the two of us swapped emails back and forth about their recent spate of moves, I …
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It’s free agent season, and as silly dollars get tossed at players, here are a few interesting links I’ve come across amid the avalanche of my writing projects. • My man Alex Belth has a fantastic historical recap of some milestones of the free agency era in his Sports Illustrated (SI.com) debut. No, they’re not …
Wednesday’s Education section of the Boston Globe featured an article on the Tufts University course, “The Analysis of Baseball: Statistics and Sabermetrics,” to which I paid a visit last spring after learning that my DIPS page had wound up on the course syllabus. In the article, by Peter Schworm, yours truly gets in a good …
I’ve managed to come up for air, for a couple of days at least, after meeting both of my deadlines for player comments for Baseball Prospectus 2006. After a long weekend devoted to NOT writing about baseball — my wife gets me for some quality time, including a celebration of our five-year anniversary together — …
And you should be too… • Caught between two batches of player comments, I partook in an email chat about the Dodgers with fellow bloggers and Dodger fans Rich Lederer, Rob McMillan and Jon Weisman, the latter of whom has the transcript of our little roundtable. Suffice it to say that the hiring of Giants …
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Back when I attended the Winter Meetings in New Orleans two years ago, I met a handful of Baseball Prospectus writers, nearly all of whom shook their heads, rolled their eyes, and used the term “book season” when describing their general maladies. Now I understand a bit better. I’m up to my rolled eyeballs in …
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Did I promise “more chat?” The title of this post was bestowed upon me by Baseball Prospectus’ Jason Grady, who clocked my BP Chat debut — scheduled to run two hours on Thursday — at three hours and 35 minutes. That’s believed to be a BP record, coming only a few weeks after Christina Kahrl …
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